Maggie Rogers is an American singer-songwriter born in Easton, Maryland in 1994, who broke out when a video of Pharrell Williams's stunned reaction to her song Alaska at an NYU master class went viral in 2016. Heard It in a Past Life (2019) and Don't Forget Me (2024) both make great entry points. Explore Maggie Rogers vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Margaret Debay Rogers was born in Easton, Maryland on April 25, 1994. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her 2016 song Alaska brought her international attention after a video of Pharrell Williams's emotional reaction to her playing it during his Tisch master class went viral. She signed with Capitol Records and released her debut Heard It in a Past Life (2019). She subsequently completed a Master of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School in 2022. Her 2024 album Don't Forget Me received critical attention.
Maggie Rogers's sound combines indie pop, folk pop, alternative pop, dance pop, and singer-songwriter with her distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content addressing spirituality, relationships, and personal experience drawing on folk songwriting traditions alongside contemporary electronic pop production approaches.
Capitol Records pressings of the Maggie Rogers catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Maggie Rogers typically start with Don't Forget Me (2024) or Heard It in a Past Life (2019).
